Maharashtra gives taxi and tuk-tuk drivers a year to learn Marathi language
BBC News - Indiaby Alpesh Karkare·5 Sept 2026
- Published An Indian state has given taxi and tuk-tuk drivers one more year to learn the local language after a new rule making it mandatory sparked protests.
Tata Chemicals ordered out of Kenya by president
BBC News - Indiaby Nikita Yadav·4 Sept 2026
- Published One of India's major chemical companies, Tata Chemicals, has been asked to exit Kenya after the government said it had failed to generate enough benefits for the country.
India GDP: Q1 growth defies oil shock but data faces credibility questions
BBC News - Indiaby Nikhil Inamdar·3 Sept 2026
- Published "Doomsayers were doomed and India bloomed… Yet again," wrote Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on X, external, reacting to smart first quarter GDP data that came out earlier this...
Odisha: Why Dara Singh, murderer of Christian missionary Graham Staines and his sons, may walk free in India
BBC News - Indiaby Geeta Pandey·1 Sept 2026
- Published Warning: This article contains details of violent death that some readers may find distressing One of India's most shocking incidents of anti-Christian violence is back in the news more...
Why India wants Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman to visit Delhi
BBC News - Indiaby Anbarasan Ethirajan·27 Aug 2026
- Published It is not often that an official email offers a glimpse into relations between two neighbouring countries.
The formidable challenges facing the next Tata Sons top boss
BBC News - Indiaby Nikhil Inamdar·23 Aug 2026
- Published The shock resignation of Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran earlier this month has left corporate India's top job vacant.
Broken toilets, leaking roofs: Why India's 'cockroach' party wants to fix schools
BBC News - Indiaby Geeta Pandey·21 Aug 2026
- Published The squat one-storey building has recently received a fresh coat of paint and looks respectable from a distance.
Jharkhand: Protesters call off agitation over exam irregularities in Indian state
BBC News - Indiaby Anahita Sachdev; Anand Dutt·20 Aug 2026
- Published Protesters in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have called off their 26-day agitation over alleged irregularities in government exams after the state agreed to several of their...
L'Oreal, Estée Lauder: India's Gen Z are driving up a mega boom in its beauty market
BBC News - Indiaby Nikhil Inamdar·19 Aug 2026
- Published India's beauty brands have been drawing a lot of interest from global capital recently.
Twisha Sharma: Husband and mother-in-law charged in Indian bride's death
BBC News - Indiaby Geeta Pandey; Vishnukant Tiwari·19 Aug 2026
- Published India's federal police have filed charges in the case of a 33-year-old model and actor who was found dead in her matrimonial home in May just five months after her wedding.
Pranab Doley in Assam: The Indian activist jailed after taking on a hotel in Kaziranga
BBC News - Indiaby Zoya Mateen; Dilip Kumar Sharma·18 Aug 2026
- Published On 30 July, the day Pranab Doley was set to be released from jail, his father and lawyer arrived at the prison in the northeastern Indian state of Assam to take the activist home.
CJI Surya Kant: Why Indian law students don't want top judge at their graduation ceremony
BBC News - Indiaby Geeta Pandey·18 Aug 2026
- Published India's top judges often make news for their rulings or pronunciations on weighty matters of law.
UPI: India built a digital payments miracle. Now comes the bill.
BBC News - Indiaby Soutik Biswas·16 Aug 2026
- Published For most Indians, paying by Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has become almost absurdly routine. Scan a QR code, tap a few buttons and the money moves instantly.
Air India: What a reported cannabis-positive pilot test really tells us
BBC News - Indiaby Soutik Biswas·15 Aug 2026
- Published Reports that an Air India pilot tested positive for cannabis after a flight sound like the sort of finding that should make an aviation investigator sit up.
Aditya-L1: Indian solar mission's new findings throw light on enduring Sun mysteries
BBC News - Indiaby Geeta Pandey·14 Aug 2026
- Published One of the most enduring mysteries that has been puzzling scientists forever is how the Sun's outer atmosphere - the corona - is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.
Vikram's viral video with lar gibbon sparks India wildlife investigation
BBC News - Indiaby Zoya Mateen; Vijayanand Arumugam·13 Aug 2026
- Published A video posted by a Tamil film star showing him cuddling an endangered gibbon has triggered an investigation by Indian wildlife officials over how he came into contact with the animal.
Assam: How a 97-year-old escaped deadly Indian floods on a banana log raft
BBC News - Indiaby Soutik Biswas·11 Aug 2026
- Published Well past midnight on 19 July, as floodwaters surged through a village in India's northeastern state of Assam, Bornali Baruah and her husband were trying to save his 97-year-old mother.
Maharashtra's Ladki Bahin: Why India's largest cash-transfer scheme for women is under scrutiny
BBC News - Indiaby Mayuresh Konnur; Zoya Mateen·10 Aug 2026
- Published Until two years ago, Nirmala Bawaskar had no bank account of her own. A widow who works as a housemaid in Maharashtra's Sambhajinagar district, she signed documents with a thumbprint...
Bringing 'Green Boots' home 30 years after climber died on Everest
BBC News - Indiaby Jehangir Ali·8 Aug 2026
- Published For 30 years, a dead body known as "Green Boots" has been lying in the snow, nestled under an overhanging rock, not far from Mount Everest's summit.
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